#ffxiv reaper

A Reaper’s Fallexcerpt:

It made sense, Adrien thought with dark humor, that neither road would be easy. Akinari’s hands on his face made him flinch but he didn’t pull away. Memories of Thistle flashed in his mind, the last person he’d been close to, and it had been months ago now. 

So, continue to fight or sever his connection completely. Black magic had always come easily to him. Fire, ice, lightning, the power to create and destroy… he’d loved it since he was a boy. It was something he’d excelled at, been noticed by his teachers in Ul’dah, granting him prestige, knowledge and recognition. At his height, the warnings of Mach rang on deaf ears and when Thistle left, he got desperate. 

Arrogant fucking fool. 

Malphas had been hollowing him from the inside-out. Corrupting everything he once held so dear. What was once movement and energy, black magic now felt like sludge in his hands. It had been over a year since he’d picked up his staff, trading it long ago for the scythe. What he was so afraid to lose… it was already gone. Long gone and he hadn’t even noticed.

Adrien closed his eyes, feeling tears welling up, his face growing hot with shame. He barely knew the man whose room he’d invaded in the middle of the night, yet here he was breaking apart in front of him. 

“I’m so tired.” He whispered. “I-I can’t fight anymore.”

Adrien’s vision went black.

N̵̳̬̈́̈́͑̈́͂̾̄̏̓̚ö̴͇̰̘̘̙̣̳͓́̈̄̀̈́̓͝.̷̛̛̮͇̪̙͕̼̣̥̙͎̘̇͐

Adrien screamed, his eye flashed violet, and he was tipping back in the chair to fall hard against the wall. He scrambled, groaning, a feverish “No no no no *gods NO*” spilling from him before being abruptly cut off. Adrien snapped his head up at Akinari from where he crouched, unnaturally on all fours. 

T̸̟̀h̶̢͝ḙ̵̓ ̸̧̃g̷̠͆o̸̮͠d̶̞͒s̶̲͐ ̶̨͗c̸͍̈́a̴͕͝n̶̟͘’̸̣́ť̸̥ ̴̝͂h̷̙͋e̵͚͌l̴̤͋p̴̗̽ ̵̖̅y̵̹̔o̴͈͠ù̷̬ ̵̜̾n̵̟̂ȍ̴͍ẃ̶͙ ̸̖̃b̸̗̐ò̵̲ý̴̢.̷̰̚The creature said.

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More About Adrien

I recently typed out a big long recap to a friend who wanted the tea and figured I’d share here as well. Might come back and clean it up eventually but here’s just a scattered retelling of what he’s gone through in FFXIV.

• Thistle Brandywine - Adrien’s childhood friend - ran off to Ala Migo and Doma with nothing but a mysterious and concerning letter. This (along with a jokingly made kiss) sparks a lot of soul searching for Adrien, who up until this point found little interest in love and relationships. Thistle had always been in his life and now she was missing and he cares A LOT.
• Adrien did his best to find her, but she wouldn’t tell him where she was and in the end he got desperate and made a pact with a voidsent.
• The demons name is Malphas and he offered a way to track Thistle. In exchange Adrien would give up one of his eyes. Now Adrien has the ability to see and find people’s umbral energy. Which I’ve kinda interpreted as their physical forms (so not the soul). Long story short he has a way to follow Thistle’s trail.

• So he went charging after her, finally tracking her down in Doma. He confesses that he loves her right before they destroy the palace and then proceed to finish freeing Ala Migo
• He doesn’t admit howhe found her until later. Spilling the story, the fact that he still carries Malphas with him and also that he miiiiight have suffered a few episodes of “lost time” where he wakes up after several days in a new place having no recollection of where he has been or how he got there
• Thistle vows to help him get rid of Malphas, calls the thing a “bitchsent” and goes so far as to start studying black magic to find a way to banish the thing
• Thistle plays black mage through 90% of Shadowbringers because of this.
• Meanwhile in Uldah…Adrien and Malphas get noticed by the leader of the reapers and she offers to teach him how to maintain control over the voidsent.
• So he joins and he learns and it does work. It takes no small amount of effort and focus but Adrien does manage to curb Malphas taking his body for joyrides and shackle the thing into being something quite powerful
• So ShB continues and Adrien slowly but surely becomes quite powerful, if not savage on the battlefield. For the first time in his life he’s not running or scared. He’s strong. They’re defeating every light warden in their path. Malphas feels like an ally rather than a risk.
  
• Then something goes wrong with the reapers. A second powerful voidsent appears and sets it’s sights on Adrien. Adrien does his best to handle the situation on his own but eventually decides he has to tell Thistle in case something does happen to him. Basically this leads to a big fight with Thistle in which Adrien admits that he gave up trying to get rid of Malphas and that he’s decided to keep him. This is right before Mt Gulg. So they end up going into that entire moment just angry and sad
• Thistle ends up being the one collapsing. (We decided that she’s the only one containing the light since Adrien’s connection with the void basically overpowers that.) He carries her broken body back down the mountain after that entire tragic scene. They don’t talk a whole lot after that. Thistle retreats into the Greatwood for a time, returning to her monk meditations as a means to control the light threatening to break free. Adrien meanwhile spends his time with the Scions trying to find a way to save her. During this time Thistle accepts that she’s probably going to die when they confront Emet. But by the fucking Twelve she’s going to go down swinging and take the bastard down with her.
• This leads to another fight right before they face off against Emet in Amarot which Adrien tries to tell her not to just accept death. That she doesn’t know what will happen and to not give up. They say many things that people in glass houses should not say. (Also I’m marvelling now at how terrible they are at waiting until the last possible moment to have serious conversations.)
  
• They fought, they won, and went back to the source. But Adrien unlocked something in Amarot…We RPed a lil something in game where thistle and Adrien went and visited her parentsAnd afterwards she told him she would take him as he was, voidsent or no. But Adrien wanted to be honest and he said he needed to show her what he unlocked. So he went full enshroud form. Which, in the chaos and terror of Amarot he managed to unlock and Thistle looked at him in terror. She didn’t see any glimpse of her Adrien in him and started crying. So he left.

In conclusion…

Adrien has been fully spiraling. He’s spent his time hunting voidsent, drinking and uh… Just letting Malphas take over because he simply can’t be bothered to exist. So if you run into Adrien masked he’s probably not actually… himself right now.

Need to share my beloved alt Warrior of Light - Adrien Pendragon. This fool boy made a pact with a voidsent as a black mage and has since stumbled into being a reaper. The heart leads us down strange paths sometimes. Was it for love or fear? 

His story does continue. Read here for more!

Oh GOD. Things have gone awry. O-O

Reaper shares gear with dragoon… Oh well, here we go!